[quote user="The ZMan"]I was trying (badly it seems) to say that creators club has nothing to do with purchasing. to purchaseyour need to be in one of these countries: In which regions will Xbox LIVE Indie Games be available for purchase this holiday? Consumers in the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, Japan, ...

[quote user="Jim Perry"] Hmm, I didn't think that would be the case. :([/quote] Looks like it is, sadly :-( though I don't get why. I do understand that MS has to look into a lot of legal issues to allow submitting games from a given country (considering that they pay royalties to people). But I don't really see a ...

[quote user="Jim Perry"] The only thing that's needed to download games is access to Xbox Live. As long as your country has that you're good. [/quote] Really, because I don't seem to find an "Xbox Indie games" download section anywhere on the marketplace. I also tried logging into Xbox.com and setting the ...

[quote user="The ZMan"]Creators club memberships were available before XBLIG was available. It simply means you can develop games for the 360.. maybe with a hope that one day it will come to Belgium. SInce you are not in a country where you can submit games you are right that its probably not worth it. You will be able to access the ...

Hi there, I've been away from XNA for some months now and finally I'm back. I have a question regarding Creators club membership which I just don't get (maybe I'm just plain stupid :-) ) The XNA FAQ says this: [Quote] Why don't I see the XNA Creators Club premium membership offered on Xbox LIVE Marketplace? ...

Can't you just create a technique with 2 passes. The first would apply blurring and the second grayscale? Or combine the two into a single pass. Or why would you need to have 2 different HLSL files?

I'll first point you to msdn to the System.Random class. Click here The most useful method are the Random.Next(...) overloads. Here's some code snippet: System.Random rnd;    ...

There you go :-)

I'm far from being a probability expert, but here's what I would do: Generate a random int between 1 and 10. If the random is really random, the probability for each int should be 1/10th. So every time the random returns, let's say 1, you trigger the desired event.

Don't let yourself be fooled by the indication of memory usage in the task manager. Every .NET i.e. managed application has a pretty high memory footprint. As far as I understand it, the framework will allocate much more memory than your application actually needs just in case it should really need it at some point. However, it will release ...